Hello,
I introduced the problem by the following command
awk '/^ \t*case/,/^ \t*esac/{if(/\[\^.*\)/) exit(1)}'
which I added to autotest. The testsuite is not working properly.
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ralf Menzel wrote:
> I'm using a Solaris 9 machine and the Sun Workshop 9.0 compiler:
Yes, Solaris' /bin/awk has a very limited capabilities. Every time
I try to use awk, I run into this. Unfortunately, I don't have access
to Solaris.
There are several ways to fix the problem:
1) either adapt the script so that it works even with Solaris' /bin/awk
What may be the root of the problem?
- the commma in: /re1/, /re2/
- the regex in if: if(/re/)
- or, most likely, the "exit"
2) Or, preferably, add AC_PROG_AWK to configure.ac and use $AWK.
That way we'd use at least /bin/nawk, which might work.
With a patch I have in my queue, we'd even find /usr/xpg4/bin/awk,
which is POSIX-conformant.
I'll look at it again later.
Stepan
